Quilting has always been my "sanity saver" as I always had a busy sometimes even stressful job. It was always so soothing to relax by playing with some fabric and doing some stitching. I started working with fabric and thread when I was five, long before my mother thought I should even be thinking of touching needles. An elderly lady from our church would invite me over for "tea" and we'd sip and stitch. By the time I was nine, I could handle my mom's featherweight expertly and I started making clothes for myself and my sisters and finally my mom. At sixteen I started to quilt to use up all the scraps that my clothing construction had created. Of course, this many years later I still have scraps but have made dozens and dozens of quilts. I tell my husband that at least it keeps me off the streets and out of the bars!